If you would like to see some close ups and all the products I used with links, just visit my video below.

I have also found a beautiful song that I would love to share with you. Some of you may know that I have worked with special needs children, and a friend of a friend has written the most beautiful song for her DD who has special needs. You can purchase her song (she has a Christmas CD as well) from itunes. The proceeds will go toward her therapy.Hugs!!Merry Christmas!

Saturday, December 10, 2011

This is a 6ft tree that I purchase back when I was into selling Pink Shabby Roses on Ebay. So I had a lot of pink decor.

Here is my Tree before

I just have one little problem this year with my trees. You may be able to see it in the picture below. Look in the center of the photo, and my new problem should be easier for you to find. Sorry it is a little blurry but I took it in the evening, and was playing with the settings on my camera.

The Problem's name is Mr. Frankie Kittens. If you missed the story, he was a stray kitty that had been attacked by another animal in our yard. My kiddos caught him..and of course he became our pet.

He is missing the last 1/3 of his tail. It doesn't seem to stop him from doing what he wants.

Here is a photo of the top of my pink shabby tree.

The Angel on this tree and some of the other trees (I will post pictures once they are decorated)..I bought on ebay a few years back. I got an awesome deal. I love them!! Here is a picture of the middle section. A lot of ornaments are glass...and don't show up so well.

Unfortunately the bottom of my tree looks a little bare...LOL. Just see the problem that I pointed out above as for the reasoning...LOL

I am hoping that Mr. Kittens will become bored with the trees, and then I can add some more ornaments. Just this morning he removed all the fun from one of my primitive sheep ornies...it is now naked...LOL. I think he needs a few more days to get over the coolness of these hanging toys...LOL.

I just stumbled upon the

PINK SATURDAY BLOG. I have seen it when visiting some of my girlfriends blogs in the past...Micupoftea.

I hope to link up there since Pink (well...a coral pink) is my favorite color..as well as Robin's egg blue...and too many others to list..LOL.

This tree is one of 4 that will be in my NEW pink (used to be blue) dining room.

If you missed my First Tree of Christmas just hit this and it will take you there!!

This month over at Bella creations, I used some Ephemera by our sponsor Gecko Galz to create the collage sheet below for you to print out (the sheet with out the copyright is at bella creations) and create a tag, card, altered art...anything goes this month.

I just changed the post card a tad. The original Gecko Galz one, and I created one using a Graphic Fairy image of two girls in the stamp, and one with just a red stamp. Here is a close up of the Graphic Fairy one.

I hope you enjoyed my post today..and I hope you have something pink to share...and that you have time to come to Bella's and play in my challenge!!

Thursday, December 08, 2011

I have finally gotten around to doing a little tree decorating! Today I have my First Tree of Christmas :0). It is kind of like a Tim Tag, on steriods...LOL. I am going to start off with my favorite little 5ft tree. It's home is in the dining room, nuzzled in a corner.

Here it is before

Today I had to add a new light strand. The bottom one had burnt out. Here are some pictures of it now.

I have many antique ornaments on this tree that I have collected over the years. This tree is my favorite. Probably because it is small, but packs a lot of beauty!

That little gold ribbon fan that is on the right was made by my father. Can you imagine a Retired tool and die maker making these delicate fans? Not that my dad is not creative, bur normally he is building arrows (for target shoot only) or wood things. Not dainty Christmas ribbon fans...LOL. So you may see them through out my trees.

Here is a full shot. I still need to add some ornaments to the bottom that are bigger...just got to find the box that has them in it.

Let's take a break from trees shall we...lol.

This month at Bella Creations I am hosting the Card Challenge. I have designed a Sketch for inspiraton!

It is up to you to what colors and theme you would like to use this month. I thought it might be fun to show it turned as well.

Tuesday, December 06, 2011

I just started blogging a little over a year ago, and so some of you may remember that I have a sickness for Christmas Trees.

I know it is crazy...but I just can't help it.

Just to clarify, I consider decorating Christmas Trees as my Art Flavor for the month of December. I will leave my trees up till The end of January. You might say..."Don't people think you are weird having them up that long?"...actually people think I am weird, but they always love my trees. Since I live with teenage boys and my DH and new kitty (so things could get interesting this year)..I am the only one decorating. I have tried all that happy get the family together and decorate...and my family is just not into it anymore. My youngest has a White tree in his room, and he decorates it himself. Okay....here we go.

Here are some photos of my trees after being dragged out of the attic, down the stairs and stuck in a spot.

The Dining Room Trees

This one is one of my favorites. This one is older than my kiddos. First little tree that I bought.

This one is in the opposite diagonal corner from the one above. It is nine feet tall. Now imagine you are a Christmas Tree Hoarder and you walk into Walmart the day after Christmas and find this tree for only $34. I about had a heart attack at that great deal. PRE LIT...so you know what happened....

Yep...you guessed it! LOL...I went back to the tree department and got another one. It hangs out in the family room Kitchen area..(you know I did go back and get another one for my brother and his wife at the time for their house...lol). What can I say..I am madd :0).

Look at that poor tree...LOL. I got to the point that I didn't want to take the beads off from last year...LOL.

Back to the Dining room. Back a gazillion years ago, I was painting ornaments for tiny pink trees and selling them on ebay. So if you wanted a Shabby Pink Roses Chic tree...I had it. (I still have at least 7 of these trees in the attic, but they are 3ft).

You know what this tree is saying???? Listen close...

GINNY...come and decorate me please :0). Not sure if it was last year or the year before, but my BFF came over and helped me with my sickness. Not that she is not sick herself...because she puts up a pile of trees too. You can click the link in the top right corner...Polly's Paper Studio...to find her. You could stop by her blog and tell her my Pink Tree is looking for her :0) that would be funny!!

Now to the foyer.

This one has some sweet antique lights that I got at a yardsale on it. It also has a wood trunk base (woodland tree). Mr. Frankie Kittens..has been doing a little bark shaving. Not sure how that is going to work :0) Kind of messy.

On the other side of the door is this little tree. I call it my Charlie brown tree.

Next is the Red Room. Our rooms are named by color..and the dining room used to be the Blue room, but it was recently painted a Coral pink (dining room is easier). This tree I just got a couple years ago. After a trip to Greenfield Village. I decided my big poofy tree needed to be replaced by a more vintage looking tree.

Unfortunately I had to put the stinking lights on this tree...LOL. I found some awesome LED Christmas candle lamps on ebay..they are GORGEOUS! When it is decorated..I will post a close up.

My kids do complain about this tree, they preferred the big poofy one. The tree base on this one spins (so does the one in the family room)..so it gets decorated all the way around. You can find the heavy duty revolving ones at Home Depot and Michaels (that is where I got mine...after Christmas a gazillion years ago).

Okay..so there are a couple more small ones...but I am tired, and all I have done is carried down decorations and blogged about it. So, check back this time next week...and MAYBE I will be finished.

(feel free to check out their challenges, you may be able to share what you create with them too). I am also sharing this with the Faded Charms (White Wednesdays). Many beautiful inspiration for you to see at all of these blogs!

Here it is.

I created this with an image from Gecko Galz. I started out with a skate cut file from the Silhouette online store. I embossed it with an embossing folder. Then I wet embossed it with some Zing embossing powder. I added some MS glitter to the edges of skate.

Here is a close up of the embossing. I added some silver glittery pipe cleaners to add some vintage charm! I used one to look like the blade of the skate and the other to hold a snowflake in the skate. I did cut two skates..glued the bottom section of the boot together and pop dots at the top..so it is a pocket.

I used some Christmas picks that I bought at Michaels, as well as a stick pin from a swap (Cathi O). I used liquid pearls in bisque to apply some polka dots to the woman's hat and sweater.

I used a Stamp by prima and stazon jet black ink to stamp on the tag that fits inside the skate. I inked all edges of the tag and the Skate with Ranger's vintage photo distress ink. The tiny stars are some charms from Ranger too. I used seed beads to create the buttons on the skate.

I hope this inspires you to create something fun today, and that you may stop by the Cinema Crop and play.

I started off with one of my son's tiny maple syrup bottles he has been collecting. I used Graphic Fairy and Gecko Gals image and digital stamps to create my collaged tickets. I also added a little fringe like fibers. Here is a close up of my star and ticket tags!

I was inspired by Maggi's to create something that looked like heavy metal. So I used a timmy die, prima pattern stamp, stazon in jet black,embossing folder and some alcohol inks. I just LOVE how it turned out!

Added some Gecko galz paper to the edge of the cap, filled in the top with glue, brown glitter and a vintage antique button. You can see the curly ques of my wire...I love wire!

Here is a close up of the left side :0)

The Christmas Exhibition is from the Graphic Fairy, you can get the Santa image there or at my friend Sandi's blog. She has great images from her collection too. Another antique button, and some white glitter around my ticket.

Here is a close up of the right hand side of the bottle.

I used the same prima stamp on my tiny punched flower. The Angel is a Gecko Galz image as well as the Christmas Holly. The key is a brad which I just broke off the back and glued on. I inked all my pieces with Ranger's vintage photo distress ink.

Some White glitter outlines the ticket on the front of the bottle, and a seed bead is what I used for the center of my flower.

One last look at the whole little bottle. I have filled it with strips of dark tan music paper..also by Gecko Galz. I will have to photo that later :-) Too tired.

There is a lot of yummy glitter and perfect pearls (copper by Ranger).

All my flowers came from the flying Unicorn. The tiny white rose buds are one of my favorites!

I just love the liquid pearls in bisque.

The outside of the card is an image from the Gecko Galz

Here is the original image before I altered it in GIMP. I used a lot of ink to ink it up, and I printed it on ivory colored cardstock, after removing the background color.

The tag just slips in the top. Here is how it looks with out the tag. I also flipped the image, and cut and paste the sentiment so it wouldn't be backwards :0)

Here is a look at the tag. You will see how I added the roses to the top so that when the tag is in the card, it looks like one beautiful flower cluster.

Here I used many images to create a mini collage. I took the frame and added a shadow so it looks as if you are viewing this happy couple through a gorgeously framed window. I took the little angel from the original image of the skaters, and put him on the frame instead :0) I just love how it turned out. You can see on the right side there how the gift card slides in. Since I used an angel..I will be sharing this at Flutterbywednesdays challenge.

Adding the shadows creates some depth, which misleads the eye to think there is more than one layer of paper here. I added some of the flowers from the holly bunch, but used some different holly behind it.

I just love all the glitter!! If you would like to learn how to create your own little collages just check out my GIMP TUTORIALS page.